2nd DuPage man sentenced in county's 1st dogfight case

Art BarnumCHICAGO TRIBUNE

One of two Lombard men charged with staging a fight between their two family pit bulls in May pleaded guilty Monday to dogfighting and was sentenced to 60 days in jail.

Robert Kollman, 21, of the 300 block of North Grace Street, also got two years of probation, during which he may not have unsupervised visits with Rampage, his family's mixed-breed pit bull. He also was ordered to donate $500 to the Hinsdale Humane Society.

Kollman and Brian Moll, 22, of the 100 block of South Lombard Avenue, were arrested after Lombard police, responding to a neighbor's call, found a crowd of mostly underage youths cheering as the dogs, Ace, owned by Moll, and Rampage, fought in Kollman's backyard, DuPage County prosecutor Mary Cronin told Judge Daniel Guerin. It was the first time anyone had been charged with dogfighting in DuPage.

Neither dog was badly hurt, and both were confiscated. Rampage was released in fall back to Kollman's family. Ace, according to court records, was put down at the county's animal shelter several months after no one reclaimed or adopted it. Moll, who had a previous criminal record, pleaded guilty last fall to dogfighting and got 18 months in prison.